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Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Great Google+ PlayBook App.

[caption id="attachment_157" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="In The App World"]In The App World[/caption]

I  found a pretty good app for all you Google+ users out there.  Web Launcher for Google+ started as just a quick launch application, basically sending you to the mobile version of the G+ website.  The PlayBook version is a wrapper with some tweaks and it is now very similar to the Google+ app for other platforms.  I like these version because they include the notification bar functionality that the web app is missing.  It's free and the developer has a "donation version" which is the same app, you just get to give him a dollar for his efforts.

It's worth a dollar if you are a Google+ user and it's worth a try at the very least.  I gave it a 5 star review and chipped in to hopefully

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Fanboy Confessions Part 2

In this post I would like to elaborate on some of the great things I have found in Android and some capabilities that were new to me.

First of all pictures and video can automatically upload to Picasa and be made available to post on Google+ at any time. You not only get a cloud based backup, but instant sharing right from your device

Google Music (still in Beta) is awesome. After you get your library uploaded you can stream your inter collection from anywhere, as well as download songs to your device to keep a local copy. I was surprised to find that this also recognized my entire Audio Book Library

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Fanboy Confessional, Part 1

About a year before getting my first iPhone I had just started making the switch to Apple.  The first Intel Macs were about to come out, and I was constantly playing with my hackintosh partition on my PC.  I saw many things that I liked, especially with the syncing of the .mac accounts and later Mobile Me.  I was a Windows Mobile user and I had paid for an Exchange Server for a personal domain based email so I could have all my info synced.  I moved to a BlackBerry curve when they integrated a camera with the Curve models.  I was very happy with that Curve and had started to use other services to keep things synced like Remember The Milk for my Tasks.  When the iPhone 3G came out we had a chance to opt out of our Verizon contract and jump on the iPhone bandwagon.  It was great to have my calendar, my tasks, my email, and my address book always the same wherever I happen to be.  Apps were high quality, cheap, and flowing like rain in those days.  It was a bright new world and I really enjoyed using my device for fun, for work, for music, and for videos.